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Topic: If a genie popped out of a bottle and granted you 3 guitars |
Jack Hanson
From:
San Luis Valley, USA
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Posted 4 May 2023 10:53 am |
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| Make believe you were relaxing at your favorite fishing hole, a bottle floated by, and you grabbed it. You opened it up, a beauteous genie escaped, and said you could have three guitars of any description (acoustic, electric, steel, Spanish, bass -- whatever). What would you select? |
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Will Houston
From:
Tempe, Az
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Posted 4 May 2023 12:11 pm
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| Only 3, how about a mid 60's Gibson Humminbird, a late 30's Gibson EH 185 and maybe a early 50's Fender Dual Pro 8...dream on. |
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Bill McCloskey
From:
Nanuet, NY
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Posted 4 May 2023 1:37 pm
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Jimi Hendrix Guitar
Segovia's Guitar
Stevie Ray Vaughn's Guitar
All which would be auctioned off so I could buy as many damn guitars as I please.
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Dave Mudgett
From:
Central Pennsylvania and Gallatin, Tennessee
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Posted 4 May 2023 8:02 pm
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Given the fact that I have all the steels I've ever really wanted -
1. Mike Bloomfield's '59 Les Paul Sunburst (assuming it's more-or-less intact - if it's not, I'd take Jimmy Page's #2)
2. Danny Gatton's or Roy Buchanan's '53 Tele
3. An early 1940s herringbone Martin D-28 I played at George Youngblood's shop in Guilford CT in the late 80s that I should have bought. $10 grand seemed like a lot of money at the time, but I should have bought it.
OK, I'll add #4: a '63 seafoam green Strat I played in Jonathan Rose's shop in Hendersonville TN in the mid-80s. Probably the last time I let my wife talk me out of buying a guitar, LOL. I think it was $1400 - just before the first Stratmania kicked in big-time. I was still in grad school, but I coulda' cobbled the money together somehow.
OK Jack - what are your choices? |
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Jerry Overstreet
From:
Louisville Ky
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Posted 4 May 2023 8:13 pm
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Tim built Scheerhorn Reso
Toss up between Mullen G2 D10 Black lacquer w/ MOP 9+8 or Martin vintage D28 Herringbone.
Schild Uni 12 or 14 if he builds one. |
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Frank Freniere
From:
The First Coast
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Posted 5 May 2023 4:57 am
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Off the top of my head ...
Brian Jones's '64 Firebird
A Black Franklin S-10 3x5
A Ross Shafer custom D-10 Sierra
I want to PLAY these guitars, not worship them.
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Jack Hanson
From:
San Luis Valley, USA
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Posted 5 May 2023 5:00 am
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| Dave Mudgett wrote: |
| OK Jack - what are your choices? |
Okay, I'll bite.
1) Early to mid '60s Gibson EB-2 or EB-2D, sunburst
2) Mid to late '60s Ric 330/12, 360/12, or 370/12, fireglow
3) Prewar Ric A-22 (short-scale frypan)
As of 6-21-23 -- One down:
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Dave Mudgett
From:
Central Pennsylvania and Gallatin, Tennessee
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Posted 5 May 2023 5:57 am
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| Going with the premise of the question, the choices I made are for guitars to play, not to flip. I have excellent Les Pauls, Teles, Dreadnaughts for bluegrass, and Strats already. I need nothing. But these particular guitars (and in a couple of cases, the players) kind of define the sound of their respective models for me. |
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Brooks Montgomery
From:
Idaho, USA
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Posted 5 May 2023 6:28 am
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| Dave Mudgett wrote: |
Given the fact that I have all the steels I've ever really wanted -
1. Mike Bloomfield's '59 Les Paul Sunburst (assuming it's more-or-less intact -
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Funny Dave as I chewed on this question, that was the first one that came to mind for me also. But it would drive me crazy to listen to “Albert’s Shuffle”, or “Stop”, or East-West, and wonder why it doesn’t sound the same  . I drove my parents crazy playing Bloomfield over and over in the house…….
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A banjo, like a pet monkey, seems like a good idea at first. |
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Doug Taylor
From:
Shelbyville, Kentucky, USA
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Posted 5 May 2023 6:35 am
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| My 66 P bass I bought with my paper route money when I was 14 and foolishly sold when I was 19, my 65 D18 I traded for my upright bass. I guess #3 would be a prewar D28. I am in great shape in the steel department with a Mullens RP and a 51 Dual Pro! |
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Mike Neer
From:
NJ
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Fred Treece
From:
California, USA
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Posted 6 May 2023 8:38 am
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The Sigma 12-string acoustic I bought in 1973 with my summer construction job money.
An Emmons D-10, or hmmm… A Ross Schafer Sierra S12
Bruce Springsteen’s Born To Run Telecaster. For worship AND play.
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Changed my mind.
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Roger Crawford
From:
Griffin, GA USA
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Posted 6 May 2023 9:15 am
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| The Blade, the original Blue Darling and Trigger. |
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Ben Elder
From:
La Crescenta, California, USA
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Posted 6 May 2023 3:45 pm
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The ones that got away:
1968 Gibson ES-335 #916155
1971 (ca.) ZB S-10 #0248
1860s (ca.) Martin 2-1/2-17(?)
(Then, Weissenborn Style 4, Weissenborn Style 2, 1974 Martin D-41.) Dozens more got away, but these are the few that obliterate my sleep and torture my every waking moment. Bloomfield’s Les Paul, Clarence/Marty’s Telecaster and Clarence/Tony’s D-28 don’t keep me up nights because what I do have is so far beyond my abilities and any reasonable standard of justification for ownership. And I actually have some that have come back.
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Jim Fogle
From:
North Carolina, Winston-Salem, USA
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Posted 7 May 2023 4:46 pm
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John Denver's Guild acoustic 12 String
1957 Telecaster my elder brother owned for many years
'60's era Silvertone electric bass with light gage strings.
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Remembering Harold Fogle (1945-1999) Pedal Steel Player
Dell laptop Win 10, i3, 8GB, 480GB
2024 BiaB UltraPlus PAK
Cakewalk by Bandlab Computer DAW
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Bob Carlucci
From:
Candor, New York, USA
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Posted 8 May 2023 3:12 am
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Ok, I'll play..
1- Harrison's Ric 12
2-Marty Stuart/Clarence White "Parson White Tele"
3- Prince's "Cloud" built by Paul Rusan
4- If any of those is unavailable, I would take McCartney's Hofner bass..
Then like everyone else, I would greedily cash in, and run out and buy stuff I really wanted...
wait the stuff I wrote is what I really want right?
Not sure how this works........ anyway, I won't hold my breath.... bob
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I'm over the hill and hittin'rocks on the way down!
no gear list for me.. you don't have the time...... |
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Samuel Phillippe
From:
Douglas Michigan, USA
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Posted 8 May 2023 6:26 am
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My 1952 Sears Silvertone Electric (first electric guitar), My $10 pawn shop accoustic bought in 1961 that I reworked and had the best tone I could ask for, and my yard sale electric no name that was more fun to play than all my presently owned guitars.
Cheap but wish I still had them.
Should be easy for a genie..........
Sam |
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Joachim Kettner
From:
Germany
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Posted 8 May 2023 6:36 am
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A Fender Coronado, my Gibson J-45 and Rickenbacher 360/12 I'd want these two back.
I'm superstitious: I would like to have a Hendrix guitar but then I wouldn't touch it.
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Fender Kingman, Sierra Crown D-10, Evans Amplifier, Soup Cube. |
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Brett Day
From:
Pickens, SC
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Posted 8 May 2023 7:44 pm
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For me, it'd be my Jackson Blackjack Custom, a new Gold Tone Paul Beard Signature Series squareneck dobro, and, if there was another steel, it would be an Emmons ReSound '65 and possibly a steel played by Sonny Garrish because Sonny Garrish is one of my steel heroes, and possibly the Emmons D-10 Teddy Carr played with Ricochet in the video of Ricochet's song "Daddy's Money" and it's possibly the same steel he played when Ricochet performed "What Do I Know" and "Daddy's Money" on the Prime Time Country show on TNN in 1996-I have no idea where the Emmons Teddy played is now, but it sure would be cool to sit down behind it and play some songs
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Nic Neufeld
From:
Kansas City, Missouri
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Posted 19 Jun 2023 6:18 am
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1. Jules Ah See's Magnatone D8...except one of the two of them is currently owned by Alan Akaka (given to him by Benny Kalama) and I wouldn't want to take it from him, so maybe the "other" one Jules owned!
2. Chris Squire's Rickenbacker 4001.
3. Ustad Imrat Khan's Hiren Roy surbahar. I held it once (as his student), never played it. It felt so amazingly light and resonant (unlike my much cheaper surbahar that is much heavier, and doesn't sing out in the same way)
With the caveat, in all these cases, that whoever has these instruments currently has a much better claim and right to hold these instruments for sure, so I would only want them if, say, a copy of them was materialized out of thin air.
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I hear the rolling surf calling
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Charlie McDonald
From:
out of the blue
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Posted 24 Jun 2023 4:34 am
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Why do we sell these rare guitars? What should have been a terrible gui was the best lap steel sound I ever had.
My Danelectro convertible
A Moyo pedal steel.
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Andy Volk
From:
Boston, MA
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Posted 24 Jun 2023 5:49 am
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I've strangely reached a point in my life when I'm not coveting specific instruments anymore. Whatever I've got on hand is what I want to play. I have a beautiful Clinesmith but a reach for my humble MOTS Magnatone more often. I think back to my first $60 Yamaha acoustic; that guitar took me far. It feels good to be more Zen about the whole instrument thing and work on owning less stuff. Now that I said that, I'll probably develop a jones for some new instrument 6 months from now.
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John Larson
From:
Pennsyltucky, USA
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Posted 24 Jun 2023 6:02 am
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1. Gibson SJ-200 in Black (doesn't matter the year)
2. Ibanez Steve Vai Universe 7 String (one of the original dipped swirl finish ones from the 90s)
3. Williams SD-12 Extended E9 Pedal Steel
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Rejoice in the Lord, O ye righteous; praise is meet for the upright. Give praise to the Lord with the harp, chant unto Him with the ten-stringed psaltery. Sing unto Him a new song, chant well unto Him with jubilation. For the word of the Lord is true, and all His works are in faithfulness. The Lord loveth mercy and judgement; the earth is full of the mercy of the Lord.
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Dave Mudgett
From:
Central Pennsylvania and Gallatin, Tennessee
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Posted 24 Jun 2023 7:27 am
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| I think back to my first $60 Yamaha acoustic; that guitar took me far. |
Yup - my first (decent) acoustic was a $60 Yamaha, bought upstairs in the musical instrument department (yes, they had one) at Jordan Marsh on Washington St in downtown Boston in 1970. I used that for 15 years as my primary acoustic. Actually, it was quite a good guitar. |
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Gil James
From:
Louisiana, USA
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Posted 24 Jun 2023 8:17 am
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| Dave and Andy, I still have my 72 Yamaha. Never been in a case and still sounds and plays great. And still have my 67 Fender Coronado too,lol. |
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